2024 November PAD Chapbook Challenge: Day 11
For the 2024 November PAD Chapbook Challenge, poets are tasked with writing a poem a day in the month of November before assembling a chapbook manuscript in the month of December. Day 11 is to write a lost poem.
For today’s prompt, write a lost poem. I've actually lost poems over the years (poems that I'm sure we're my finest work), whether losing the physical copy written on a Post-It note or piece of paper...or from lost posts when we've migrated our site content. But a lost poem doesn't have to be about losing a poem; it can be about losing a person, place, thing, state of mind, etc. There are so many things to be lost that this might produce several lost poems.
Remember: These prompts are springboards to creativity. Use them to expand your possibilities, not limit them.
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Here’s my attempt at a Lost Poem:
“my cool,” by Robert Lee Brewer
for a moment
a flicker of time
between the furious beat
of a hummingbird's wings
i almost lost it
but then
in the nick of time
before i said something
they might regret
i found it
sparkling
like fresh dew
on a spring morning
as the sun breaks
over the horizon
of whatever
almost
set me off
Robert Lee Brewer is Senior Editor of Writer's Digest, which includes managing the content on WritersDigest.com and programming virtual conferences. He's the author of 40 Plot Twist Prompts for Writers: Writing Ideas for Bending Stories in New Directions, The Complete Guide of Poetic Forms: 100+ Poetic Form Definitions and Examples for Poets, Poem-a-Day: 365 Poetry Writing Prompts for a Year of Poeming, and more. Also, he's the editor of Writer's Market, Poet's Market, and Guide to Literary Agents. Follow him on Twitter @robertleebrewer.
